Johnny Smith Plays Van Heusen (1955) [Vinyl, 24-192]
Johnny Smith Plays Jimmy Van Heusen A1 But Beautiful A2 Swingin On A Star A3 I Could Have Told You A4 It Could Happen To You A5 Oh You Crazy Moon A6 I Thought About You B1 Deep In A Dream B2 So Help Me B3 Nancy B4 Polka Dots And Moon Beams B5 Darn That Dream B6 Imagination
Guitar - Johnny Smith; Piano – Bob Panecoast; Bass – George Roumanis; Drums – Gerry Segal
A1 Linger Awile 2:07
A2 Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 3:01
A3 It's A Pity To Say Goodnight 2:45
A4 I've Got The Whole World On A String 3:23
A5 Sunday 2:01
A6 It Had To Be You 6:52
B1 A Cottage For Sale 3:22
B2 Father's Freeway 2:52
B3 The Man With The Horn 3:38
B4 But Not For Me 2:22
B5 Everything Depends On You 2:15
B6 The Hour Of Parting 3:52
Piano – Earl Hines
Tenor Saxophone – Budd Johnson
Violin, Cornet – Ray Nance
Bass – Aaron Bell
Drums – Jimmy Crawford
Announcement by Art Blakey
"Sportin' Crowd"
"Like Someone in Love"
"Yesterdays"
"Avila and Tequila"
"I Waited for You"
Art Blakey — drums; Kenny Dorham — trumpet; Hank Mobley — tenor saxophone; Horace Silver — piano; Doug Watkins — bass
Live performance recorded November 23, 1955 at Cafe Bohemia, NYC
1 "Junka"
2 "Blues Blue"
3 "Minor Meeting" [Second Version]
4 "Royal Flush" [Second Version]
5 "Some Clark Bars"
6 "My Conception"
Bonus tracks on CD:
7 "Minor Meeting" [First Version]
8 "Eastern Incident" (Mono)
9 "Little Sonny" (Mono)
(All compositions by Sonny Clark)
Sonny Clark - piano
Donald Byrd - (1-6) trumpet
Hank Mobley (1-6), Clifford Jordan (7-9) - tenor saxophone
Kenny Burrell - guitar (7-9)
Paul Chambers - bass
Art Blakey (1-6), Pete LaRoca (7-9) - drums
Recorded on December 8, 1957 (7-9) and March 29, 1959 (1-6) at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
(Note: This CD was converted to 32bit PCM, and 4x up-sampled using an interpolative algorithm; thus the audio stream rendered by the Vorbis codec is from a 32-176 source, whereas the title describes the source properly as 16-44)
Kenny Burrell with Art Blakey On View At The Five Spot Cafe
1 "Birks' Works" (Dizzy Gillespie)
2 "Hallelujah" (Clifford Grey, Leo Robin, Vincent Youmans)
3 "Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
4 "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman)
5 "36-23-36" (Kenny Burrell)
6 "Swingin'" (Clifford Brown)
7 "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman)
Kenny Burrell - guitar, Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone (on 1, 3, 6), Bobby Timmons (on 1, 3, 4, 6) Roland Hanna (on 2, 5, 7) - piano, Ben Tucker - bass, Art Blakey - drums
Recorded August 25, 1959, NYC
(DSD64 source converted to PCM in 24 bit 176 khz FLAC format; the audio is not "lossless" technically.)
Take the A Train (Billy Strayhorn)
Take the A Train (Strayhorn) – Vocal by Ray Nance
Such Sweet Thunder (Elington, Strayhorn)
Frustration
Cop Out
Perdido (Juan Tizol, Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder)
Mood Indigo (Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills)
Bassment
Sophisticated Lady (Ellington, Mills, Mitchell Parish)
Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael, Parish)
Jeeps Blues (Ellington, Johnny Hodges)
All of Me (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons)
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)
On the Sunny Side of the Street (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)
Duke Ellington – piano
Shorty Baker, Willie Cook, Ray Nance, Clark Terry – trumpet
Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman – trombone
John Sanders – valve trombone
Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone
Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
Russell Procope – alto saxophone, clarinet
Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone
Harry Carney – baritone saxophone
Joe Benjamin – bass
Sam Woodyard – drums
Recorded June 1, 1957, Sunset Ballroom, Carrolltown, Pennsylvania
"Grantstand" (Grant Green)
"My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
"Blues in Maude's Flat" (Grant Green)
"Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison)
Grant Green – guitar; Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, flute; Brother Jack McDuff – organ; Ben Tucker – bass; Al Harewood – drums
Recorded August 1, 1961 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
1 "Bahia" (Ary Barroso)
2 "Goldsboro Express" (Coltrane)
3 "My Ideal" (Richard Whiting and Newell Chase, Leo Robin)
4 "I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All" (Ray Henderson, Buddy De Sylva, Ray Brown)
5 "Something I Dreamed Last Night" (Sammy Fain, 9Jack Yellen, Herb Magidson)
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Wilbur Harden – flugelhorn, trumpet (3, 4)
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet (5)
Red Garland – piano (1, 3-5)
Paul Chambers – bass
Art Taylor (1, 2, 5), Jimmy Cobb – drums (3, 4)
Recorded July 11 (3, 4), December 26 (1, 2, 5), 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio